The federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act also known as (JJDPA) was established in 1974 and has been revised several times over the past thirty years. It provides crucial support for state programs that assist communities to take a comprehensive approach to juvenile crime prevention and to address the needs of vulnerable youth and those of their families early and effectively. The JJDPA supports delinquency prevention programs to improve state and local juvenile justice systems and the juvenile planning and advisory system in all states; and operation of the Justice Department’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) dedicated to training, technical assistance, model program development, research and evaluation, and support of state and local efforts. Its reauthorization is currently more than seven years overdue. Since the last major reauthorization of the JJDPA nearly two decades ago, much more is known about what works and does not work to keep our communities safe and put youth on a better path.
Since the act was passed in 1974, the JJDPA focused solitary on preventing juvenile delinquency and …show more content…
I always thought once they served their time that was it. I have learned following release from an intuition, the juvenile is often ordered to a period of aftercare parole. During that period the juvenile is under supervision of the court or the juvenile corrections department. If he/she does not follow the conditions of the stipulations that were given to them they may be recommitted to the same facility or another facility. I also learned that the effects of this law is to keep children and adult offense separate, deinstitutionalizing status offenders and addressing the disproportionate involvement of minority youth in the juvenile justice
Since the act was passed in 1974, the JJDPA focused solitary on preventing juvenile delinquency and …show more content…
I always thought once they served their time that was it. I have learned following release from an intuition, the juvenile is often ordered to a period of aftercare parole. During that period the juvenile is under supervision of the court or the juvenile corrections department. If he/she does not follow the conditions of the stipulations that were given to them they may be recommitted to the same facility or another facility. I also learned that the effects of this law is to keep children and adult offense separate, deinstitutionalizing status offenders and addressing the disproportionate involvement of minority youth in the juvenile justice